LANDSCAPE Have you heard of the plans to put Lapu-Lapu in a cage? I may be imagining things after being under “house arrest” for more than a hundred days, but that is how it looks to me. The proposed Lapu-Lapu memorial which will be inaugurated next year, during the quincentennial is a ...
Financial aid to be used in development programs, says PH football chief Nonong Araneta The Philippine Football Federation is set to receive $1 million (P49.48 million) financial aid from world governing body FIFA to be used in development programs amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (MB File Photo) The...
LANDSCAPE In his White House memoir, titled The Room Where It Happened , Mr. John Bolton, former national security adviser of President Donald Trump, tells all, somewhat maliciously. Almost daily, he would go to that room , the Oval Office, to give his boss a briefing about what was...
Return bid in motion for Philippines Football League In this file photo, Ceres-Negros players celebrate after receiving the Philippines Football League championship trophy against Kaya-Iloilo. (Photo from Ceres-Negros) Philippines Football League (PFL) clubs are scheduled to undergo COVID-19...
Araneta: Players' health, safety priority Philippine Football Federation president Nonong Araneta (Jonas Terrado) The Philippine Football Federation welcomed the Inter-Agency Task Force’s decision that will allow clubs from the Philippines Football League to hold training sessions under strict...
LANDSCAPE At this writing, Twink Macaraig is no more. The outspoken journalist, television anchor, fearless Filipina has gone to where there are no villains nor tyrants. Her bereaved husband Archt. Paulo Alcazaren announced her demise on Facebook. Although her friends knew that Twink was bravely ...
LANDSCAPE Very few Cebuanos remember that the patron saint of their capital, Cebu City, is not the wildly worshipped Santo Nino but the obscure Catholic martyr, San Vidal. As you probably know, in 1521, Ferdinand Magellan gave the queen of Cebu a statue of the Santo Nino because she took a...
Gemma Cruz Araneta In the Vatican, a born controversialist has occupied the chair of St. Peter. He has lifted the privilege of “pontifical secrecy” which has concealed and tolerated abuses and crimes committed by all levels of the clergy. Last December, he appointed a young Filipino cardinal,...